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Business Intelligence Leader Information Builders Showcases New Release of WebFOCUS

Includes More Than 100 Updates Driving the Expanding Scope of BI

NASHVILLE, TN--(Marketwire - June 9, 2009) - Information Builders, an independent leader
in business intelligence (BI)
solutions, today announced new products and updates to its WebFOCUS
portfolio, including more than 100 functionality enhancements focused on
driving the expanding role of BI at leading enterprise and government
organizations worldwide.

According to the 2009 Gartner Executive Programs CIO Survey, BI remains a
top-five technology priority for the fourth year in a row.(1) Yet many
organizations are still struggling to get BI into the hands of the people
who need it. BI technology helps organizations drive value from IT
investments in tangible ways like making business processes more efficient
and information-management processes less complicated.

As the scope of business intelligence expands beyond dashboards, OLAP, and report distribution, Information
Builders is continually adding new components to WebFOCUS that bolster
essential BI capabilities without the need to buy add-on products. By
adhering to standards and leveraging open source software, Information
Builders has incorporated search, predictive analytics, electronic
publishing, performance
management, and mobile BI, to give customers BI applications that are
pervasive, inexpensive, and easy to deploy.

"Information Builders has led the market in bringing BI to more people by
delivering rich functionality on a budget," said Information Builders
founder and CEO Gerald Cohen. "We have added new features that actively
help customers push BI to support more applications, touch more facets of
their business, and deliver BI to 100 percent of the people that need it.
These add-on components alleviate the need for customers to buy separate BI
products, not only reducing license costs, but also making the entire BI
environment easier to learn, upgrade, and maintain."

Key highlights include enhancements that help organizations understand what
has happened, what is happening, and what will happen through BI.

Active PDF and InfoAssist: Insight on What Has Happened

Part of the latest version of WebFOCUS, Active PDF extends the platform's
current Active Technologies capability to give users the ability to quickly
and easily navigate and filter large documents and complex analytical
dashboards. Rather than scouring hundreds of printed pages, users are able
to consume and print only the most relevant business information from
anywhere, on any smart device, saving time and money.

End users who currently leverage Active Reports and WebFOCUS Enable
for Adobe® FLEX® can now access custom interactive and animated
analytic dashboards in PDF format for free. This new interactivity builds
on the coordinated, print-ready PDF capabilities that WebFOCUS already
provides. In addition to dashboards, Active PDF can be used for bank and
investment statements, inventory reports, invoices, and more.

Introduced in November 2008, InfoAssist is an intuitive ad
hocreporting solution that provides business users with the
easy-to-use, robust query and analysis tool they need to make faster
business and operational decisions. Information Builders has added more
than a dozen enhancements to make report building even easier, including:

-- Compose View combines the features of query building with the ability
to style and present customized documents, and allows users to build
multiple reports and charts on the same canvas
-- New Cube Browsing capabilities allow users to browse any cube or
database in the InfoAssist Interactive Design view and see a live preview
of the query output as they add and remove objects and formatting in the
Layout Canvas
-- Configuration of global preferences and default values for things,
such as record limits or choosing to remove functionality

WebFOCUS Activity Monitor and Magnify Search: Visibility into What Is
Happening

WebFOCUS Activity Monitor provides visibility into automated business
processes by integrating business activity monitoring (BAM) and business
intelligence. This BI/BAM solution captures end-to-end transaction and
workflow data across multiple applications and business units, summarizing
and displaying trading partner metrics to help managers make informed
decisions. Using a multitude of iWay adapters, WebFOCUS Activity Monitor
can now channel real-time events, like cash register transactions, directly
to an in-memory database. There they connect to display and analysis
facilities as well as to the Information Builders performance management
console for real-time KPI comparison with prior data.

Enabling users to query, report, analyze, deliver, and display electronic
trading data in any way they choose, WebFOCUS Activity Monitor delivers
dashboards with embedded BI capabilities to help administrators quickly
troubleshoot problems, detect anomalies, and conduct capacity planning
exercises. WebFOCUS Activity Monitor can alert individuals to changes and
exceptions that may require action, as well as provide aggregated insight
for strategic planning.

WebFOCUS Magnify™, the industry's first search navigation tool that
dynamically categorizes search results and supplements them with analysis
and reporting capabilities has been updated with new features designed to
enhance both usability and security. Highlights include:

-- Collections, enabling users to select a collection that narrows their
search to a specific part of the index, prior to their submission
-- Magnify iWay Wizard, helping users to quickly set up a Magnify
environment, instructing them how to handle each field when transforming a
record into a search result
-- New security features including single sign-on integration, multiple
credential support, the ability to hide entire results and parts of
results, and present alternate-result rendering as well as a security API

WebFOCUS RStat: Predicting What Will Happen

WebFOCUS RStat is the first BI platform to enable data miners,
statisticians, BI developers, and analysts to collaboratively build
predictive applications for field and operational employees. Now shipping
with WebFOCUS, RStat extends the value and accessibility of predictive
analytics in production BI applications across the enterprise. RStat now
offers even more predictive models and robust statistical sampling
routines, including random and stratified sampling with user-defined
strata. Its easy and intuitive user interface also includes a built-in
calculator for sample sizes. RStat allows data miners and BI developers to
work collaboratively with the same tools to access, manipulate, or
transform data; develop predictive models; and create and deploy Web
applications to any worker within their organization.

All new product features and functionality are being showcased at
Information Builders Annual Summit User Conference, held this week in
Nashville, TN. For more information, visit
www.informationbuilders.com/summit.

About Information Builders

Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence
and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions
to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the
world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides
the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global
extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical,
and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users.
Information Builders' iWay Software suite provides state of the art,
multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management
requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading
software platform providers. Together, these products give Information
Builders' customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their
needs.

Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S.
federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices
worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business
partners. More information is available at
http://www.informationbuilders.com.